Screiner, Dave. Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years.
Kitchen Sink Comic Art Reference Library no. 1. Northampton, MA: Kitchen
Sink, 1994. 128 pp. ISBN 0-87816-307-7 (cloth), 0-87816-292-5 (paper).
NOTE: There is no Table of Contents for this
book, so I have created one here. Individuals' names listed in some chapters
refer to sidebars written by them and included in the chapters. Each chapter
also includes a checklist of comics published by KSP that year. --GK--

Acknowledgements . . . 2

Cover Key . . . 3

Preface: Of Kitchen and Kitchen Sink . . . 4

Introduction . . . 5

1968: Before the Beginning . . . 8

1969: Homemade Comics . . . 9

Bill Klauth (11)

1970: Of Optimism and Naiveté . . . 12

Jay Lynch (15), Mike Baron (18)

1971: The First Best Seller . . . 19

Tyler Lantzy (23)

1972: Flying High . . . 25

1973: From Feast to Famine . . . 31

Will Eisner (32)

1974: Proposed Panacea . . . 35

Stan Lee (38)

1975: Digging Out of the Hole . . . 39

1976: Signs of Life . . . 41

Trina Robbins (43)

1977: Keep On Kruppin' . . . 44

Leonard Rifas (46)

1978: A New Spirit . . . 47

Art Spiegelman (48)

1979: In Full Swing . . . 50

"Who Is Steve Krupp?", by Denis Kitchen (52)

1980: Coming Out and Falling Out . . . 53

Howard Cruse (54)

1981: A Breakthrough Year . . . 56

Reed Waller (57)

1982: Comical Diversity . . . 60

Milton Griepp (62)

1983: Changes . . . 63

1984: A Mega Year . . . 67

Donald Simpson (69)

1985: Comics in the Country . . . 70

1986: The Epitome of KSP . . . 75

Kate Worley (76), Adele Kurtzman (78)

1987: Rhythm . . . 80

Mark Schultz (82)

1988: Full Speed Ahead . . . 84

James Vance (87), Jacques Boivin (89)

1989: Hit and Miss . . . 91

Steve Geppi (94)

1990: Eclectic Ephemera . . . 96

Frank Stack aka Foolbert Sturgeon (101), Carole Sobochinski (104)

1991: Courting Deadheads . . . 105

P.S. Mueller (111)

1992: The Winds of Change . . . 113

Will Elder (117)

1993: A Mammoth Move . . . 119

Alan Moore (121)

1994: As the Crow Flies . . . 124

Kevin Eastman (126)

Kitchen Sink Press Today . . . 127

Index . . . 128

Review by Mike Rhode:

Schreiner's history of Kitchen Sink Press is an enjoyably light-weight
insider look at the company. A long-time editor for KSP, Schreiner has
written a strictly factual, surface-level history of the company. The year-by-year
chronology is heavily illustrated. The slim volume provides a good quick
overview of Kitchen's twenty-five year publishing history, but an in-depth
study of the company is still possible.